Chicago

NEAR WEST CITIZENS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE PRESENTS A FREE FILM:

Beyond Belief

Jobs, jobs, Jobs
Living Wage Jobs for All Coalition
14th and 16th
Congressional Districts presents:

Why and How Environmental and Labor Organizations Should Work Together on Political Issues

John Laesch, union carpenter & former candidate for Congress, and
Sigi Psimenos, director of Elgin Climate Change Organization

Plus :
Organizing the Unemployed
Susan Hurley of Jobs with Justice

Join the discussion. Be part of the solution.
Let’s attract and keep living- wage jobs in our districts.

The new moments Dunayevskaya discovered in the last decade of Marx’s work, still little recognized, provide a needed vantage point for today’s struggles of women’s liberation, “developing” and “developed” lands, and global crisis. This series of discussions is part of our work of completing a new book of selected writings on Marx by Raya Dunayevskaya. She revealed Marx in a new way, from his Humanist Essays through Capital to his last works on non-capitalist societies and the Man/Woman relation.

Thursday, November 18 at 12:00pm (EST)
Access Number: 1.800.920.7487
Participant Code: 92247763#

To find out more about this conversation with Rep. Baird, see Brant's piece, "Talk to Rep. Brian Baird before he leaves office in conference call sponsored by Ta’anit Tzedek – Jewish Fast For Gaza," published this week in Mondoweiss.  The link is below, but here's an excerpt:

Come to a critical community gathering

Topics will Include:

What "War Crimes" are
Whistleblowers
Corporate Media's Rose
Regulating the Press
What Has Actually Been Released
Endangering Peoples Lives
National Security

Free and open to the public.  Bring your friends.  Refreshments served.

Sponsored by Neighbors for Peace
Co-sponsored by World Can't Wait, Chicago and Evanston

DATE
4 Saturdays, Jan 22 – Feb 12, 2011
 
TIME
1-4pm
 
EVENT
5 Fingers of Self-Defense: Individual & Community Responses to Violence.  For Adults and Teens
 

John Ging
Director of UNRWA Operations Gaza

Humanists for the Ethical Treatment of Gregory Koger present

Jazz for Justice

Featuring Ted Sirota and Fred Lonberg-Holm

$20 Suggested Donation

A Benefit for Political Prisoner Gregory Koger's Defense Fund[/size]
Gregory's motion for bond pending appeal was granted so this will be a celebration as well.
For more on this vindictive prosecution for "crimes" that never happened, visit the Ad Hoc Committee for Reason website or contact them at
Adhoc4Reason AT gmail.com

Thanksgiving Eve – the acclaimed hip-hop trio, Rebel Diaz, will perform in Chicago to help raise funds for the legal defense of anti-war and solidarity activists targeted by the FBI and threatened with the Grand Jury. The hip-hop line up at the Northside club, Martyr’s, is organized by Portoluz, and it will be fantastic, including performances by BBU, Scheme and additional groups. Get your tickets here - $12 in advance and $15 at the door.

The annual banquet of "Americans For 'Truth' About Homosexuality" (AFTAH) will be the subject of a protest by pro-gay forces at 5:30 PM, Saturday, Nov. 13th at the "Christian Liberty Academy," 502 W. Euclid Avenue in Arlington Heights.  

AFTAH is listed as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization which tracks extreme racist, sexist and anti-gay groups, and the purpose of the protest is further expose AFTAH's hate to public scrutiny.